"Now
the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary
was espoused to Joseph, BEFORE THEY CAME
TOGETHER, she was found with
child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man,
and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her
away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the
angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou
son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that
WHICH IS
CONCEIVED IN HER IS OF THE HOLY GHOST."

Matthew 1:18-20

"NOW
all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall
bring forth a son, and they shall call his name
EMMANUEL,
which being interpreted is, God
with us."

Matthew 11:22-23

THE VIRGIN BIRTH

Passing strange, is
it not, that with such a clear record anyone can deny that the BIBLE
TEACHES THE VIRGIN BIRTH. We can understand how men can reject the
Bible record, but how men can say that the Bible does not teach the
VIRGIN BIRTH is beyond conception.

The Bible teaches
plainly that Jesus was conceived in the womb of a virgin Jewish mother by a
supernatural insemination of the Holy Ghost, wholly and apart from any
generation by a human father. This the Bible teaches so plainly that to the
believer there is no doubt. The record cannot be mistaken by the enlightened
and honest student of the Word.

JESUS SINLESS

The Bible teaches
in addition that Jesus was a SINLESS man. While all
men from Adam to this day are born with Adam’s sinful nature, and,
therefore, are subject to the curse and eternal death, the Man Jesus was
without sin and, therefore, DEATHLESS until He took
the sin of others upon Himself and died THEIR
death. Now while Jesus was of Adam's race according to the flesh yet He did
not inherit Adam's nature. This alone will prove that sin is not transmitted
through the flesh. It is transmitted through the blood and not the flesh,
and even though Jesus was of the "Seed of David according to the flesh" this
could not make him a sinner.

God has made of
ONE BLOOD ALL THE NATIONS of the earth. Sinful
heredity is transmitted through the blood and not through the flesh. Even
though Jesus, therefore, received His flesh, His body from a sinful race, He
could still be sinless as long as not a drop blood of this sinful race
entered His veins. God must find a way whereby Jesus could be perfectly
human according to the flesh and yet not have the blood of sinful humanity.
That was the problem solved by the virgin birth.

ORIGIN OF THE BLOOD

It is now
definitely known that the blood which flows in an unborn babies arteries and
veins is not derived from the mother but is produced within the body of the
foetus itself only after the introduction of the male sperm. An unfertilized
ovum can never develop blood since the female egg does not by itself contain
the elements essential for the production of this blood. It is only after
the male element has entered the ovum that blood can develop. As a very
simple illustration of this, think of the egg of a hen. An unfertilized egg
is just an ovum on a much larger scale than the human ovum. You may incubate
this unfertilized hens egg but it will never develop. It will decay and
become rotten, but no chick will result. Let that egg be fertilized by the
introduction of the male sperm and incubation will bring to light the
presence of LIFE IN THAT EGG. After a few hours it visibly develops. In a
little while red streaks occur in the egg denoting the presence of
Blood. This can never occur and does never occur
until THE MALE SPERM HAS BEEN UNITED WITH THE FEMALE OVUM. The male element
has added life to the egg. Life is in the blood according to scripture, for
Moses says:

"For the life of the flesh is in
the blood." (Leviticus 17:11). "For it is the life of all flesh;
the blood of it is for the life thereof."

Leviticus 17:14

Since there is no
life in the egg until the male sperm unites with it, and the life is in the
blood, it follows that the male sperm is the source of the blood, the seed
of life. Think it through.

NO MOTHERS
BLOOD

For this very
reason, it is unnecessary that a single drop of blood be given to the
developing embryo in the womb of the mother. Such is the case according to
science. The mother provides the foetus (the unborn developing infant) with
the nutritive elements for the building of that little body in the secret of
her bosom, but all the blood which forms in that little body is formed in
the embryo itself and only as a result of the contribution of the male
parent. From the time of conception to the time of birth of the infant not
ONE SINGLE DROP OF BLOOD ever passes from mother to
child. The placenta that mass of temporary tissue known better as
“afterbirth,” forming the union between mother and child is so constructed
that although all the soluble nutritive elements such as proteins, fats,
carbohydrates, salts, minerals and even antibodies pass freely from mother
to child and the waste products of the child's metabolism are passed back to
the mothers circulation, no actual interchange of a single drop of blood
ever occurs normally. All the blood which is in that child is produced
within the child itself as a result of the introduction of the male sperm.
The mother contributes no blood at all.

TESTIMONY OF SCIENCE

Now for the sake of
some of the skeptics who may doubt these statements let me quote from a few
reliable authorities. In Howell’s Textbook of Physiology, Second
Edition, pages 885 and 886, I read:

"For
the purpose of understanding its general functions it is sufficient
to recall that the placenta consists essentially of vascular
chorionic papillae from the foetus (the unborn child) bathed in the
large blood spaces of the decidual membrane of the mother. The fetal
and maternal blood DO NOT COME INTO ACTUAL
CONTACT. THEY ARE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER
by the walls of the fetal blood vessels and the epithelial layers of
the chorionic villae."

Or let me quote from Williams’
Practice of Obstetrics, Third Edition, page 133. Here I quote,

"The
fetal blood in the vessels of the chorionic villae AT NO TIME GAINS ACCESS
TO THE MATERNAL BLOOD in the
intervillous space, BEING SEPARATED FROM
ONE ANOTHER by the double
layer of chorionic epithelium."

And from page 136 of the same recognized
textbook I quote,

"Normally
there is no communication between the fetal blood and the maternal blood."

Now for the
benefit of those of you who may be nurses, let me quote from a textbook
which is familiar to you. Quoting from "Nurse’s Handbook of Obstetrics"
by Louise Zabriskie, R.N., Fifth Edition, page 75:

"When
the circulation of the blood begins in the embryo, it remains
separate and distinct from that of the mother. All food and waste
material which are interchanged between the embryo and the mother
must pass through the blood vessel walls from one circulation to the
other."

And from page 82 of the same book --

"The
foetus receives its nourishment and oxygen from the mothers blood
into its own through the medium of the placenta. The fetal heart
pumps blood through the arteries of the umbilical cord into the
placental vessels, which, looping in and out of the uterine tissue
and lying in close contact with the uterine vessels, permit a
diffusion, through their walls, of waste products from child to
mother and of nourishment and oxygen from mother to child. As has
been said, this interchange is effected by the process of osmosis,
and there is no direct mingling of the two blood currents. In other
words, no maternal blood actually flows to the foetus, nor is there
any direct fetal blood flow to the mother."

GOD'S WONDERFUL PROVISION

How wonderfully God
prepared for the virgin birth of His Son. When He created woman He made her
so that no blood would be able to pass from her to her offspring. That blood
is the result of the male. Since Adam was the federal head of the race, it
is HIS BLOOD which transmits Adam's Sin. In order to produce a sinless man
and yet be the son of Adam, God must provide a way whereby that man would
have a human body derived from Adam but have not a drop of Adam's sinful
blood. Right here is the scientific biological reason for the sinlessness of
the Man Christ Jesus. Some have tried to answer the question, “How could He
be sinless and yet born of a woman?” by making Mary the “Immaculate Virgin.”
That, however, does not answer the question of howJESUS was sinless since it is through the male that
the bloodline runs.

Not only is this a scientific fact, but it is plainly taught in Scripture
that Jesus partook of human flesh without Adam's blood. In Hebrews 2:14 we
read,

"Forasmuch
then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood. He also
himself likewise took part of the same -- "

You will
notice that the children, that is the human children, are said to be
partakers of FLESH and BLOOD,
and then speaking of Jesus it says that He "himself likewise took part
of the same." The Word “took part” as applying to Christ is an entirely
different word then “partakers” as applied to the children. In the margin of
my Bible, I read the word translated “took part” implies “taking part in
something outside one’s self.” The Greek word for partakers is
"KOYNONEHO" and means “to share fully,” so that all
of Adam’s children share fully in Adam’s flesh and blood. When we read that
Jesus “took part of the same” the word is "METECHO"
which means to take "part" but not all. The Children take both flesh and
blood of Adam but Christ took only part, that is the flesh part, while the
blood was the result of supernatural conception.

Jesus was a perfect
human being after the flesh. He was of the seed of David according to the
flesh, but blood is that part of a man which is the divine addition. In the
creation of man, Adam’s body was made from the dust of the earth, but God
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Since life is in the blood,
this act resulted in the formation of blood in Adam’s body, but the first
Adam’s blood was corrupted and sin transmitted through it to all mankind. In
the last Adam and the second man, new and divine and sinless blood was
produced in a body that was the seed of Adam and by this resulted in the
production of —

DIVINE BLOOD

Conception by the
Holy Ghost then was the only way the Virgin Birth could be accomplished.
Mary contributed the body of Jesus and He became the "seed of David
according to the flesh." The Holy Spirit contributed the Blood of Jesus. It
was sinless blood. It was Divine blood. It is Precious Blood for there has
never been any other like it. It is —

INNOCENT BLOOD

"I have
betrayed the innocent blood" Judas confessed in Matthew 27:4. Our Lord
was innocent. He became like unto us in all things — SIN
only excepted. Like unto us with ONE EXCEPTION and
that exception was that instead of a human father He was conceived by a
DIVINE FATHER. As a result biologically, He had
DIVINE BLOOD, SINLESS BLOOD. Because this blood is
sinless it is —

INCORRUPTIBLE BLOOD

Sin made human
blood corruptible. Soon after death, decay sets in, and it begins in the
blood. That is why meat must be drained well of its blood. That is why
embalmers place the embalming fluid in the blood. David said that Jesus’
body should "see no corruption." Though He was dead three days and
three nights, His body did not corrupt. Because He was sinless they could
not put Him to death but instead He "laid down His life voluntarily that He
might take it up again." He arose by His own power because death had no
claim in HIM except the claim of others’ sin, and
when that was paid —

Sinner, have
you received this Saviour and have you been washed in His
PRECIOUS BLOOD? If not, you are still under the curse and the awful
sentence of death. Why not accept HIM today and hear Him as he says:

"God
commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then being now JUSTIFIED BY HIS
BLOOD, we shall be saved
from wrath through him."

"Before an
individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself."

"We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in
our disagreements."

"Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a
search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and
beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions,
translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of
our fathers and grandfathers."

"The
true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not
legislation, but regeneration." (THE TABERNACLE, Pg. 101)